A few weeks ago we were asked to participate in this neat little Sweep
Panorama photo contest. Sony provided Neatorama with this sleek and
very pretty Cyber-shot
DSC-WX1 camera to play with. The task was to take a bunch of panoramic
photos and submit them to compete against other photos by bloggers around
the web. I'm not a professional photographer by any means, but I sure
had fun anyway.

The camera is very little and a real treat to tote around. I am used
to lugging around a huge SLR. As long as I am not having a particularly
fat day, this compact Sony will actually fit in my pocket. But, the really
nice thing about this Sony camera is that I don't feel like I am giving
up quality for convienince. Yes, it's really really easy to use but has
lots of bells and whistles to boot. The camera is 10.2 mega pixels, has
a 5x optical lens, 24 mm wide-angle lens (35mm format), anti-motion blur,
take movies and so on. Frankly this little guy is way smarter then I am.

The panoramic feature they asked us to test out is super cool. All you
do is set the camera to the "sweep panorama" mode and you are
ready to go. The camera shoots multiple images and seamlessly pieces the
together into a panoramic image as you move the camera. You can take vertical
or horizontal pictures. The fun thing about the mode is that you can fit
a lot visually into one picture. The way it scans actually allows you
to achieve a certain amount of depth that you can't get with other still
cameras.

We are still playing with camera and we have been asked to submit even
more photos. We can't tell you which ones we provided but we think you
will have a good time looking at everyone's interpretation of the assignment.
Check out the cool panoramic photos at WeSay
and vote for your favorite panoramic photo today. The winner is allowed
to choose which school they would like 10 additional cameras to be given
so you are voting for a good cause.

http://www.wesay.com/sony/

Disclosure: We do get to keep the camera (Thanks Sony and Technorati!
It rocks), but the opinion above was 100% ours. There was no pressure
to write only positive reviews.

So, does the sony camera come with a virus or do you still have to download it? (i can't understand people still trust sony, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Controversy)

"The way it scans actually allows you to achieve a certain amount of depth that you can't get with other still cameras." => what does this mean? do you have example fotos? what other cameras/software did you compare it to? The objectiveness of this piece is zero and reeks of "promotion through blogosphere".I believe an article like this is worth far more than one camera, check with advertisers how much you could earn from a one page add an set a decent price to advertisers.

IMHO, sony is a crappy do-everything-mediocre company. I'll get my camera from a camera maker, my tv from a tv maker and my kitchen household from ... you can guess it...

Neat, but unneccessary IMHO. I use a program called autostitch instead. If I'm careful taking my pics (as in, not take 2, wander off and come back later to take the rest), the program puts them together pretty well.

Here's a quick example: http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8241/hudsonpanoramic21.jpg made from 4 overlapping shots of the Hudson River.